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Overview
Are you a highly motivated and experienced AML professional ready to make a significant impact? Intuit is seeking a Senior Investigator to join our dedicated Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance team. In this role, reporting to the Head of AML Oversight and Intelligence, you'll be crucial in protecting our rapidly expanding financial services — encompassing QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma products that facilitate ACH, credit card, lending, digital wallet, cross-border payments, and bill pay — for millions of consumer and business customers.
This role is hybrid with on-site expectations 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
Investigations & Case Management
- Lead end-to-end investigations of complex and high-risk cases involving potential money laundering, fraud, structuring, and other suspicious activity.
- Review transactional activity for consumer and business clients across various channels: ACH, card (credit/debit), cross-border wires, and digital payments.
- Prepare and file timely, high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to FinCEN in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal standards and strategic escalations to bank partners in accordance with contractual obligations and internal standards.
- Conduct enhanced due diligence (EDD) on high-risk entities or patterns, including those involving digital assets or crypto-related activity.
Team Leadership, Mentorship & Training
- Serve as a Team Lead, providing direct guidance, quality assurance, and oversight to AML/BSA investigators.
- Mentor and support junior and less experienced investigators, providing coaching, on-the-job training, and career development opportunities.
- Design and lead training programs to standardize investigative practices, improve case quality, and promote compliance knowledge across the team.
- Help prioritize investigations, assign workload, and ensure consistent application of investigative procedures.
- Act as the primary, lead person for complex or sensitive investigations and drive such investigations to conclusion.
Program Building & Scaling
- Develop and implement investigative procedures, workflows, escalation protocols, and quality assurance controls.
- Collaborate with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to identify data sources and improve automation and tooling for investigations.
- Help build frameworks for typologies, detection scenarios, and red flag indicators tailored to our evolving products and risk profile.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with BSA/AML Officer, Quality Control, Risk Operations, Data Analytics, Legal, and other compliance teams to ensure a unified approach to financial crime prevention.
- Participate in internal and external audits, regulatory exams, and special projects.
Qualifications
Required:
- 5+ years of experience in BSA/AML investigations, financial crimes, or fraud detection, preferably at a fintech, MSB, or financial institution.
- Strong understanding of ACH, card transactions, cross-border wires, transactions bill payments, and digital money movement products.
- Proven experience with SAR drafting, filing and FinCEN reporting requirements.
- Strong leadership experience with the ability to mentor, coach, and lead other investigators.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior investigators and lead training programs focused on investigative standards and regulatory compliance.
- Familiarity with applicable U.S. laws and regulations including BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and financial crimes compliance.
- Experience using internal and external case management and investigation tools, including AML transaction monitoring platforms and third-party research tools (e.g., Chainalysis, WorldCheck, LexisNexis).
- Providing guidance to product and or business partners on risks associated with fintech product launches and enhancements.
Preferred:
- Experience working in fintech, data environments and/or with high-volume transactional environments.
- Demonstrated experience providing guidance to product and or business partners on financial crimes compliance risks associated with fintech product launches and enhancements.
- Familiarity with transactions involving digital assets and blockchain analytics tools.
- CAMS, CFCS, or other relevant certification preferred.
Key Attributes for Success
- Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex information quickly.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written), including comfort presenting cases to senior leadership or regulators.
- Ability to operate in dynamic environments independently while balancing team leadership and programmatic growth.
- Agile and adaptable in a high-growth, fast-paced fintech environment.
- Entrepreneurial and proactive in understanding and then assisting where needed in the overall BSA/AML spaces.
- Ability to influence, challenge, and support senior leadership.
- Very strong process and problem-solving skills at both strategic and functional levels.
- Aptness to make sound risk-based decisions on complicated AML investigations.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
Mountain View $175,000 - $236,500
San Diego, CA $156,500- $211,500
Washington, DC $146,000- $197,500
Overview
Are you a highly motivated and experienced AML professional ready to make a significant impact? Intuit is seeking a Senior Investigator to join our dedicated Anti-Money Laundering (AML) compliance team. In this role, reporting to the Head of AML Oversight and Intelligence, you'll be crucial in protecting our rapidly expanding financial services — encompassing QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Credit Karma products that facilitate ACH, credit card, lending, digital wallet, cross-border payments, and bill pay — for millions of consumer and business customers.
This role is hybrid with on-site expectations 3 days per week.
Responsibilities
Investigations & Case Management
- Lead end-to-end investigations of complex and high-risk cases involving potential money laundering, fraud, structuring, and other suspicious activity.
- Review transactional activity for consumer and business clients across various channels: ACH, card (credit/debit), cross-border wires, and digital payments.
- Prepare and file timely, high-quality Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to FinCEN in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal standards and strategic escalations to bank partners in accordance with contractual obligations and internal standards.
- Conduct enhanced due diligence (EDD) on high-risk entities or patterns, including those involving digital assets or crypto-related activity.
Team Leadership, Mentorship & Training
- Serve as a Team Lead, providing direct guidance, quality assurance, and oversight to AML/BSA investigators.
- Mentor and support junior and less experienced investigators, providing coaching, on-the-job training, and career development opportunities.
- Design and lead training programs to standardize investigative practices, improve case quality, and promote compliance knowledge across the team.
- Help prioritize investigations, assign workload, and ensure consistent application of investigative procedures.
- Act as the primary, lead person for complex or sensitive investigations and drive such investigations to conclusion.
Program Building & Scaling
- Develop and implement investigative procedures, workflows, escalation protocols, and quality assurance controls.
- Collaborate with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to identify data sources and improve automation and tooling for investigations.
- Help build frameworks for typologies, detection scenarios, and red flag indicators tailored to our evolving products and risk profile.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work closely with BSA/AML Officer, Quality Control, Risk Operations, Data Analytics, Legal, and other compliance teams to ensure a unified approach to financial crime prevention.
- Participate in internal and external audits, regulatory exams, and special projects.
Qualifications
Required:
- 5+ years of experience in BSA/AML investigations, financial crimes, or fraud detection, preferably at a fintech, MSB, or financial institution.
- Strong understanding of ACH, card transactions, cross-border wires, transactions bill payments, and digital money movement products.
- Proven experience with SAR drafting, filing and FinCEN reporting requirements.
- Strong leadership experience with the ability to mentor, coach, and lead other investigators.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior investigators and lead training programs focused on investigative standards and regulatory compliance.
- Familiarity with applicable U.S. laws and regulations including BSA, USA PATRIOT Act, FinCEN guidance, and financial crimes compliance.
- Experience using internal and external case management and investigation tools, including AML transaction monitoring platforms and third-party research tools (e.g., Chainalysis, WorldCheck, LexisNexis).
- Providing guidance to product and or business partners on risks associated with fintech product launches and enhancements.
Preferred:
- Experience working in fintech, data environments and/or with high-volume transactional environments.
- Demonstrated experience providing guidance to product and or business partners on financial crimes compliance risks associated with fintech product launches and enhancements.
- Familiarity with transactions involving digital assets and blockchain analytics tools.
- CAMS, CFCS, or other relevant certification preferred.
Key Attributes for Success
- Analytical mindset with the ability to synthesize complex information quickly.
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written), including comfort presenting cases to senior leadership or regulators.
- Ability to operate in dynamic environments independently while balancing team leadership and programmatic growth.
- Agile and adaptable in a high-growth, fast-paced fintech environment.
- Entrepreneurial and proactive in understanding and then assisting where needed in the overall BSA/AML spaces.
- Ability to influence, challenge, and support senior leadership.
- Very strong process and problem-solving skills at both strategic and functional levels.
- Aptness to make sound risk-based decisions on complicated AML investigations.
Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit®: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.
Mountain View $175,000 - $236,500
San Diego, CA $156,500- $211,500
Washington, DC $146,000- $197,500
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in compliance investigator jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in criminal justice, business, law, or a related field
- Experience conducting internal investigations or regulatory compliance reviews
- Certified Fraud Examiner or Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional credential preferred
- Proficiency with case management and compliance tracking software
- Strong written communication skills for drafting investigation reports and findings memos
- Familiarity with relevant regulatory frameworks such as FINRA, HIPAA, or Bank Secrecy Act
Tips for Your Compliance Investigator Job Search
Tailor your resume to investigation outcomes
Compliance investigators are hired on results, so quantify the cases you closed, violations you identified, and corrective actions you recommended. Hiring managers want to see what changed because of your work, not just what your duties were.
Earn a certification before you apply
The Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional credential and the Certified Fraud Examiner designation appear in a large share of compliance investigator postings. Holding either one moves your resume past the first filter in regulated industries like banking and healthcare.
Target openings by regulatory framework
Roles at financial firms often require FINRA or Bank Secrecy Act experience, while healthcare openings emphasize HIPAA investigations. Filter your search by industry and read the regulatory context in each posting so your cover letter matches the specific framework the employer enforces.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists compliance investigator openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a written communication sample
Many compliance investigator interviews include a written exercise where you summarize findings or draft a memo to leadership. Pull a de-identified example from your previous work, or practice writing a one-page investigation summary, because interviewers assess clarity and neutrality of tone.
Negotiate using total compensation context
Compliance roles in heavily regulated sectors often include case-load expectations and on-call requirements that affect how demanding the job actually is. Before accepting, ask about caseload size, travel requirements, and any bonus structure tied to investigation metrics so you can compare offers accurately.
Compliance Investigator Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most compliance investigators?
The companies hiring the most compliance investigators right now include Intuit, Centene, and MANTECH, with the largest share of openings in Texas, New York, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Financial services, healthcare systems, and government contractors consistently post the highest volume of these roles.
How many compliance investigator jobs are remote?
About 70% of compliance investigator openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, with availability varying significantly by industry. Fraud and financial compliance roles are most likely to offer remote or hybrid schedules, while workplace misconduct and government investigations more often require an on-site or travel component due to the in-person nature of interviews and evidence review.
How do you become a compliance investigator?
Start with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, business, law, or a related field, then pursue entry-level roles in compliance analysis, auditing, or regulatory affairs to build case-handling experience. Earning a Certified Fraud Examiner or Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional credential strengthens your candidacy significantly. From there, move into investigator roles by demonstrating your ability to document findings clearly and recommend corrective action.
Can you get a compliance investigator job with little or no experience?
Entry-level compliance investigator roles do exist, particularly at large financial institutions and healthcare organizations that run structured compliance programs. Candidates with internship experience, a relevant certification like the Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional, or a background in auditing, law enforcement, or paralegal work can compete effectively. Emphasize any experience gathering facts, interviewing people, or writing formal reports, since those skills transfer directly to investigative work.
What does the compliance investigator interview process look like?
Most compliance investigator interview processes include an initial phone screen with HR, followed by a structured interview with the compliance manager or a panel that may include legal or HR leadership. You should expect behavioral questions about how you handled sensitive situations, maintained confidentiality, or resolved conflicting accounts. Some employers add a written exercise where you draft a sample findings memo or summarize a hypothetical case scenario to assess your analytical and communication skills.
Where can I find and apply to compliance investigator jobs?
You can find and apply to compliance investigator jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find the roles that match your experience level, industry focus, and location preference, then apply directly to each listing. There is no intermediary step and no waiting period before your application reaches the employer.
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